Side A
Artist	Song
Caetano Veloso	Eleanor Rigby
Caetano Veloso	For No One
Caetano Veloso	Lady Madonna
Willie Bobo	Michelle
Mongo Santamaria	Get Back
Cal Tjader	She's Leaving Home
Esther Phillips	And I Love Him
Ella Fitzgerald	Hey Jude
Ramsey Lewis	A Hard Day's Night
Bud Shank	The Long and Winding Road
King Curtis	Let It Be
Odetta	Strawberry Fields Forever
Lena Horne & Gabor Szabo	In My Life
Tony Bennett	Eleanor Rigby
Side B
Artist	Song	Buy
Steve Hillage	It's All Too Much
the Trypes	Love You To
the Kingsmen	If I Needed Someone
the Music Machine	Taxman
the Burns	I Saw Her Standing There
the Y'alls	Run For Your Life
Dino, Desi and Billy	You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
Nancy Sinatra	Day Tripper
Joe Cocker	I'll Cry Instead
Cliff Bennett & the Rebel Rousers	Back in the USSR
Black Oak Arkansas	Taxman
Spooky Tooth	I Am the Walrus
Bananarama & Lananeeneenoonoo	Help! (extended mix)

Comment:

I've been saving up Beatles covers for the ultimate tape for many years (and costing many, many dollars). Having received some kickass Beatles covers tapes from my trading pal Don K., I decided to return the favor and just throw together a bunch of tracks he didn't have. Of course, it's never that simple. But this one flows well and the versions usually offer something fresh in interpretation or sound. Kick off with a trio from the great Caetano, into a Latin beatles thang, to some jazzy vocalists and soul treatments, ending with Tony's Shatner-worthy bombast. Side two opens with a quartet of George songs, blending into a garage-y run which turns '60s-pop, then gets heavy with Black Oak and heavier still -- almost unbearably so -- with the Tooth before going out on a lark. A good warm-up for my ultimate Beatles covers tape, coming one of these days.

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